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  1. Channel: Delivery

Grubhub Lays Off 400, 15% Of Workforce

The Wall Street Journal reports that food delivery company Grubhub is eliminating about 400 positions within the company, or about 15 percent of its workforce, as it “seeks to reduce costs to stay competitive.” “While our business has grown since our 2019 prepandemic levels, our operating and staff costs have increased at a higher rate,” […]
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  1. Channel: Mass

Walmart Gets Into Pet Telehealth Market

CNBC reports that Walmart “has inked a deal with veterinary telehealth provider Pawp to offer Walmart+ subscribers access to the startup’s membership for a year.” According to the story, “Unlimited access to veterinary telehealth via video or text will be available to Walmart+ subscribers beginning Tuesday when Walmart is expected to announce the partnership publicly. Remote […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

One Brand Strategy For Revenue Growth

American Express weathered the pandemic with a three-legged stool strategy. American Express’ strategy was, and still is, to protect its customers, its people and its brand, according to an interview with CEO Stephen Squeri for the financial paper, Barron’s. American Express’ strategy is brand-business-leadership common sense. Unfortunately, there is less common sense in brand-business leadership […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Starship Technologies robot delivery service goes live at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Starship Technologies’ robots have started on-demand food deliveries at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 30 of them are now delivering from Wendy’s, Bojangles and Shake Smart and will add more campus eateries throughout March, with 10 onboard by the end of the month. The school’s nearly 30,000 students and faculty can now use […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Driver shortages and home cooking spell bad news for pizza chains

Domino’s and Papa John’s saw their sales tail off in the fourth quarter as consumers prepared more meals at home to stretch their food dollars in an inflationary environment. The pizza chains have also been limited by a shortage of delivery drivers, who have been siphoned off in many cases by third-party services like DoorDash […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Chick-fil-A Opens Pop-Up Store For NYC Delivery Workers

Entrepreneur reports that fast feeder Chick-fil-A “has opened a break room pop-up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to say thank you to the city’s nearly 65,000 delivery workers, who brave the elements in the winter months to serve NYC diners … From February 16 to April 13, workers who show proof of any completed food […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

An autonomous stores first in Latin America: Last week’s biggest retail technology plays at a glance

RTIH rounds up the stand out retail systems deals, launches, deployments and pilots from the past seven days. Featuring Carrefour Argentina, Shopify, Migros, Starship Technologies, Grubhub, John Lewis Partnership, Asos, Instacart, and HappyOrNot. Carrefour Argentina The first autonomous Carrefour Flash store has opened in Latin America. Tapping Go2Future miniGO technology and using cameras on the […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Your Views:  The Last Word

Yesterday MNB took note of a really good piece from the Los Angeles Times about the impact – social, cultural, infrastructural – of the pandemic-fueled e-commerce boom, which “accelerated the land grab” for warehouse space in California’s Inland Empire. The area, the Times wrote, has become “ever more hardscaped into the staging point for trains […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Kid who used dad’s phone to place $1K food order may appear in Grubhub spot

Keith Stonehouse’s six-year-old son, Mason, used his dad’s phone to place a string of food deliveries totaling $1,000 on the Grubhub app. Having learned about Mason’s unauthorized ordering, the delivery firm offered to give the Stonehouse family a $1000 gift card. Another option may be featuring Mason and his parents in an upcoming promotional campaign.
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Food delivery ordering growth slows as consumers pinch pennies

Growth in the number of orders placed with DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub slowed to about 5 percent, on average, in October and November vs. the previous year period, according to YipitData. That’s the slowest growth rate since the onset of the pandemic in 2020. DoorDash and Uber Eats alone are thought to control roughly […]
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  1. Channel & Retailers

Worth Reading:  Ghost Kitchens, Phantom Business

Willamette Week has a long piece about the growth – and now, the apparent retreat – of the ghost kitchen business ion Portland, Oregon. Here’s how WW frames the story: “A few years ago, restaurants started sprouting up in Portland like toadstools, with names like Mr. Beast Burger, Sticky Wings and Man vs. Fries. They […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Uber Eats Adds Robot-Powered Delivery in Florida

Uber Eats has partnered with robotics company Cartken to offer automated food delivery in Florida using self-driving robots. The offering will launch with select retailers in the Dadeland area of Miami-Dade County, with plans to expand to additional cities in 2023. Cartken’s AI-powered sidewalk delivery robots currently are used for neighborhood food and grocery delivery, […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Rite Aid in Delivery Deal with Grubhub; Uber Partnership Supports Delivery from 17,000 Neighborhood Stores

Deliveries from more than 2,000 Rite Aid stores in 16 states will be powered by the Grubhub Marketplace, making thousands of the retailer’s OTC, wellness products and snacks more accessible to consumers. Rite Aid items are now available on the Grubhub+ membership program, which offers no-fee deliveries on orders of $12 or more. Additionally, National […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

Amazon Prime’s Bundling Strategy

Which is better for the brand? Asking users to pay for individual services? Or asking users to buy a bundle of services? There is a lot behavioral psychology involved in this choice that affects brand perceptions. There are inherent risks whichever approach a brand employs. Research shows that individual fees feel more personalized as a […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Virtual Chicken Concept Takes Flight

There have been several stories out there about how Hooters is teaming up with NASCAR driver Chase Elliott on a new virtual chicken format that will deliver a variety of poultry dishes via Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. The items will be delivered from some 196 Hooters locations around the country, but will not be […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

7-Eleven Builds Out Delivery Capabilities as Merchants Escape Reliance on Aggregators

As retailers and restaurants improve their direct delivery channels, aggregators are challenged to work harder to draw consumers to their marketplaces. Convenience store giant 7-Eleven, for one, has been especially proactive in developing its delivery capabilities, making on-demand fulfillment part of the brand’s value proposition for consumers. The retailer has acquired white-label on-demand delivery provider […]
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  1. Channel: Ecommerce & Digital

Amazon vs Walmart Weekly: Delivery Takes Center Stage in Omnichannel Retail Fight

The week started with a simple blog post from Amazon. “Get Same-Day Delivery from your favorite retail stores,” the eCommerce giant said in a blog post, as it outlined its latest effort to get more in-stock goods, from more stores, into the hands of more people. On its own, that offer is a game changer, […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Just Eat Takeaway writes down value of Grubhub by €3bn

Just Eat Takeaway (JET) has written own the value of its US food delivery subsidiary Grubhub by €3 billion, cutting its value almost in half just 12 months after purchasing… The post Just Eat Takeaway writes down value of Grubhub by €3bn appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Amazon (AMZN) Adds Grubhub Delivery Perk to Prime Subscription

Amazon AMZN has inked a deal with Just Eat Takeaway’s Grubhub in a bid to offer a new perk to its Prime members ahead of this Prime Day. Under the partnership with Grubhub, Amazon is offering a free, full-year Grubhub+ membership to Prime members at no additional cost in the United States. Grubhub+ offers unlimited free delivery […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Amazon takes stake in Just Eat’s struggling subsidiary Grubhub

Amazon has taken a 2% stake in Just Eat Takeaway.com’s (JET) struggling US subsidiary, Gruhub, giving Prime members access to the service for a year. Just Eat, Europe’s largest meal… The post Amazon takes stake in Just Eat’s struggling subsidiary Grubhub appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Uber Eats’ BitPay Integration Allows Users to Pay With Crypto

The BitPay Card can be used anywhere Mastercard can be used, including with DoorDash and Uber Eats, according to a post on BitPay’s blog. “Use the card with DoorDash, Uber Eats, GrubHub and any other food delivery service. You can even order food delivery with your local restaurants that use their own delivery service,” the […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Grubhub Gears Up for Full Rollout of Campus Delivery Robots

As food delivery businesses look to make the economics of the model more efficient, Grubhub is rolling out autonomous delivery at college campuses. The aggregator announced Monday (June 13) that, after a spring pilot test at Ohio State University, the company is making its partnership with self-driving robotics company Cartken available to colleges across the […]
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  1. CPG: Food

Jason & Scot Show Episode 281 – Mark Mahaney, author and top internet analyst

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. Episode 281 is a discussion with Mark Mahaney Senior Managing Director at Evercore ISI and author of Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons from One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Podcast RSS SoundCloud TuneIn iHeartRadio Google […]
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